I am confused. The tone of your wording suggests you disagree with the parent poster, but what you say suggests that you agree.
I agree with both of you as much as I understand your too-short argument.
Anyway, I think it shows that bloggers do have some growing up to do - the traditional journalist was trying to do the right thing by not exposing someone's identity, but some blogger had to go and undo that. I find that disturbing. Sometimes easy access to information can be problematic. The law exposing the sexual predator list to the public is an example that easy information can be a problem because of the intimidation means used - and the press had shown that a very large percentage of that list was inaccurate, so people innocent of the sex crimes are caught in anti-predator jihad.
The "rush" from all this stuff is unnecessary anyway. It's not even the biggest shopping day by dollars, the alleged "cyber monday" is down the list in terms of online shopping days by dollars too. Maybe it's done by the retailers to get news crews going, I just don't get this angle of cutting prices so hard just to get shoppers in. It's almost expected now, making it a potentially a vicious cycle.
Normally, I might agree, but if they did back out before the contract was signed, so the cities should be able to fall back to the next bidder in line. If they did sign the contract, then there should be penalties for not abiding by the contract.
Another problem is that WiFi just isn't very well suited for city-wide networks and it looks like these companies are finally figuring that out.
The consumer access points being cheap and virtually everyone's computer having a client-side adapter doesn't help the cost issue enough to help make it affordable to the users, unless the network rollout is charity work. You need to rent utility pole space on every pole or every other pole for APs, assuming there are utility poles, some cities have been pushing towards underground wiring. You'd also need to worry about getting power to the APs. For every block, one T1 wired network drop for connection to the internet. I don't think those access points are consumer units either. Even if they were, the weatherproof enclosures are expensive too. Then there would need to be maintenance. I just don't see a viable, affordable competitor coming out of that. To me, all that makes WiMax seem viable, relatively speaking. Maybe if someone like Canopy can make pocket EC/34 or USB network adapters, then I think Canopy would be a better alternative.
It looks like a lame marketing hype video anyway. I hate the way it's edited, like someone trying to be hip with all sorts of video effects and transitions. And now that you mention it, the story telling is pretty bad too, one error sounds like like leaving the resolution out.
Gaming nerds have been saying that for a long time, but the systems are still selling in increasing numbers, so I'm not going to write off Wii based on the claims of gaming nerds.
One problem is that you're probably not the target market. People that aren't in a target market are too quick to write off something that's not for them, because they have this fallacy that they themselves represent the typical buyer for the product.
The long term solution to that being finding ways to reign in the US. Iraq wouldn't be the problem it is now if the US just left them alone. Sure, Saddam is evil, but there were no serious WMD development programs, and certainly no nuclear programs. For an administration that claimed to be certain to having known where those programs were, they haven't been able to find them.
And not being in Iraq would have meant not having diverted away the necessary support needed in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
I think the US leadership needs to be taught that it can't use the UN as an institution of convenience and to be ignored when the results aren't desirable to them.
The thing is, desktops usually aren't moved often. I know my desktops can take a lot more abuse than a notebook.
If you think that notebook drives are equivalently comparable in actual performance with desktop drives, then it's you that's in some fantasy land. The RPMs are only one factor in drive speed.
It probably is very simple compared to string theory. String theory has been around for about four decades or so and has continually gotten more complicated as time goes on. But theory is misused here because there's no experimental test or verification yet, so it's a very hairy complicated hypothesis.
Is that really a screen shot of the actual game? There's a lot of depth and detail in the buildings, every window is inset and all that. I suppose it can be with the latest game systems, but it could be a concept rendering.
As far as I remember, there were plenty of unauthorized books that described and cataloged someone else's fictional universe. I don't see what's wrong with that. There may be details about this that might make it infringing.
I'm thinking that maybe having someone else control Firefox would be a good thing. I used to really love it but the little bugs here and there are starting to bother me. The Mac version becomes unusable after a couple days and I have to restart it so it will render pages at least semi-properly again. So I've started switching to other programs on the Mac, and I'll probably begin switching my program on Windows too.
For a minute there, I was afraid the console flame wars would have to rely on blind speculation.
Now, it would remain the same myoptic or astigmatic speculation as it was for the last year. I think each platform has its strengths such that I don't thing this bandwagoneering does anyone any good - just get what you want and don't participate in the muckraking.
Maybe I would agree and not call troll if they didn't freaking file in Texas. What filing in Texas gets them is a jury that's sympathetic to patent plaintiffs.
Thinking of the children too much, especially keeping children away from adults and vice versa, leads to things like Kid Nation and Lord of the Flies.
OK, it's not good to be overprotective, but these examples don't make sense. Kid Nation is a completely artificial construct that I don't think has been done anywhere else, and IIRC, Lord of the Flies is total fiction, not even a wild exaggeration of on a true story.
>>A trojan is software that convinces the user to install it by looking like something else that the user might want to install.
>Something else like a... hard disk?
A hard disk is mostly... hardware. There's a little software in it, even in a good, uninfected unit, but that's called firmware. One doesn't buy a hard disk for that firmware.
Are iPhone users really that interested in Java? Given that it's an interpreted environment, I question its efficiency. That speed and efficiency loss is not that critical on a desktop, but when you get a palm-sized computer, it can become an issue.
Personally, I would rather make a native app just for iPhone than do a Java app for iPhone. iPhone really doesn't have a market fragmentation issue, it's its own segment. Given how fragmented the phone market is, a Java app would be better as a whole, but I really don't care about them.
I wish people would quit complaining about not having their flying cars anyway. It's a stupid fantasy that might be possible, but it's just not that practical. Not only is there this issue of requiring a landing strip, which takes land and only one craft can use it at the same time, a dozen cars at highway speed can use the same length of the same strip.
Something optimized for good flying won't do very well on the land.
Not only that, there's ever increasing pressure on energy supplies and people are somehow duped into thinking that they can afford to fly? Airplane fuel costs a little more and you'll be using a lot more of it to stay in the air, maybe two or three times as much. If you don't like spending $50/mo to $100/mo on gas, I doubt you'd like to spend $200/mo or more to cover the same distance. The cost to rent a plane is at least $60/hr depending on your region and the plane. That will cover more distance than two hours in a car, but there's plenty of preflight prep that takes time too. The plane my dad rents wouldn't take four people and cargo, it's four people or you take away people to be able to take cargo. Balance is a big concern too.
It costs about $5000 in training and expenses to learn how to fly. That training expense is not going to go down that much, because there's a lot to learn about flying that's not needed in order to drive a car. Given how so many drivers seem pretty dumb about driving, I don't think I'd want them in the air at all. There's a lot more regulation, for good reason too, damage in crashing a car is trivial compared to the damage you can do in a small plane.
The problem with movies is that there are hundreds of people in the process that no one wants to be expected to sit through five minutes of credits before seeing the movie. I want the credits to be there, but I wouldn't want anyone to be seen as forcing people to see them all before getting to the movie itself.
With TV, the same thing, though I think it's unfortunate that they are near illegible, though maybe they are optimized for HDTV, most HDTVs are clear enough to be able to read the credits. If you watch on an SDTV, then there might be a problem.
Show me some evidence that Americans have an aversion to robots.
I don't have any proof of that, but a lot of Americans seem to have some aversion to many kinds of technology. Even on this board you might see people complain that they "just want a phone", and I think that's part of why phones available in the US are lower tech than overseas. And despite the fact that the average American watches something like 3-4 hours of TV a day, they won't buy HDTVs, only a third of US homes have an HDTV right now.
Of course, the next step would be sex robots disguised as maid robots because of the social stigma of sexbots.
There seems to be a lot more Japanese people with a maid fetish than in the US, so there's not much of a difference there.
The problem is that it's now so cheap to put into the chipset. Even if you were to get a new board "without" integrated audio video, you are likely to get in the chips somewhere anyway but the circuitry not hooked up to a jack and maybe a separate amp chip.
On the other hand we've all seen how successfull the big three have been when it comes to leaving big oil.
It's not as if they've tried very hard. They tried hard NOT to have an electric car, they sued CARB to avoid having to make electric cars for California, so innovation had to come from elsewhere.
Silicon Valley isn't a good place though, maybe they can make circuit boards but the actual design and construction of cars would have to be elsewhere. Land value is just too high to make a profitable auto plant.
I think might just be a certified hardware/software combination and nothing more. They would probably include a software install CD that would be already set up for a quick, painless and predictable installation - probably with minimal options, if any.
I think making jokes about a horrific situation might be considered a psychological defense mechanism as well. Given the relative proximity here, I think it would be plausible.
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I am confused. The tone of your wording suggests you disagree with the parent poster, but what you say suggests that you agree.
I agree with both of you as much as I understand your too-short argument.
Anyway, I think it shows that bloggers do have some growing up to do - the traditional journalist was trying to do the right thing by not exposing someone's identity, but some blogger had to go and undo that. I find that disturbing. Sometimes easy access to information can be problematic. The law exposing the sexual predator list to the public is an example that easy information can be a problem because of the intimidation means used - and the press had shown that a very large percentage of that list was inaccurate, so people innocent of the sex crimes are caught in anti-predator jihad.
The "rush" from all this stuff is unnecessary anyway. It's not even the biggest shopping day by dollars, the alleged "cyber monday" is down the list in terms of online shopping days by dollars too. Maybe it's done by the retailers to get news crews going, I just don't get this angle of cutting prices so hard just to get shoppers in. It's almost expected now, making it a potentially a vicious cycle.
Normally, I might agree, but if they did back out before the contract was signed, so the cities should be able to fall back to the next bidder in line. If they did sign the contract, then there should be penalties for not abiding by the contract.
Another problem is that WiFi just isn't very well suited for city-wide networks and it looks like these companies are finally figuring that out.
The consumer access points being cheap and virtually everyone's computer having a client-side adapter doesn't help the cost issue enough to help make it affordable to the users, unless the network rollout is charity work. You need to rent utility pole space on every pole or every other pole for APs, assuming there are utility poles, some cities have been pushing towards underground wiring. You'd also need to worry about getting power to the APs. For every block, one T1 wired network drop for connection to the internet. I don't think those access points are consumer units either. Even if they were, the weatherproof enclosures are expensive too. Then there would need to be maintenance. I just don't see a viable, affordable competitor coming out of that. To me, all that makes WiMax seem viable, relatively speaking. Maybe if someone like Canopy can make pocket EC/34 or USB network adapters, then I think Canopy would be a better alternative.
It looks like a lame marketing hype video anyway. I hate the way it's edited, like someone trying to be hip with all sorts of video effects and transitions. And now that you mention it, the story telling is pretty bad too, one error sounds like like leaving the resolution out.
Gaming nerds have been saying that for a long time, but the systems are still selling in increasing numbers, so I'm not going to write off Wii based on the claims of gaming nerds.
One problem is that you're probably not the target market. People that aren't in a target market are too quick to write off something that's not for them, because they have this fallacy that they themselves represent the typical buyer for the product.
I don't see any factual errors, maybe too much is left for the reader to assume. That first item is still solid state drive, even if it's not flash.
The BitMicro drive is groin grabbingly amazing...
Ouch!
"Getting a solution to Iraq/Afghanistan"
The long term solution to that being finding ways to reign in the US. Iraq wouldn't be the problem it is now if the US just left them alone. Sure, Saddam is evil, but there were no serious WMD development programs, and certainly no nuclear programs. For an administration that claimed to be certain to having known where those programs were, they haven't been able to find them.
And not being in Iraq would have meant not having diverted away the necessary support needed in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
I think the US leadership needs to be taught that it can't use the UN as an institution of convenience and to be ignored when the results aren't desirable to them.
The thing is, desktops usually aren't moved often. I know my desktops can take a lot more abuse than a notebook.
If you think that notebook drives are equivalently comparable in actual performance with desktop drives, then it's you that's in some fantasy land. The RPMs are only one factor in drive speed.
It probably is very simple compared to string theory. String theory has been around for about four decades or so and has continually gotten more complicated as time goes on. But theory is misused here because there's no experimental test or verification yet, so it's a very hairy complicated hypothesis.
Is that really a screen shot of the actual game? There's a lot of depth and detail in the buildings, every window is inset and all that. I suppose it can be with the latest game systems, but it could be a concept rendering.
As far as I remember, there were plenty of unauthorized books that described and cataloged someone else's fictional universe. I don't see what's wrong with that. There may be details about this that might make it infringing.
I'm thinking that maybe having someone else control Firefox would be a good thing. I used to really love it but the little bugs here and there are starting to bother me. The Mac version becomes unusable after a couple days and I have to restart it so it will render pages at least semi-properly again. So I've started switching to other programs on the Mac, and I'll probably begin switching my program on Windows too.
For a minute there, I was afraid the console flame wars would have to rely on blind speculation.
Now, it would remain the same myoptic or astigmatic speculation as it was for the last year. I think each platform has its strengths such that I don't thing this bandwagoneering does anyone any good - just get what you want and don't participate in the muckraking.
Maybe I would agree and not call troll if they didn't freaking file in Texas. What filing in Texas gets them is a jury that's sympathetic to patent plaintiffs.
Thinking of the children too much, especially keeping children away from adults and vice versa, leads to things like Kid Nation and Lord of the Flies.
OK, it's not good to be overprotective, but these examples don't make sense. Kid Nation is a completely artificial construct that I don't think has been done anywhere else, and IIRC, Lord of the Flies is total fiction, not even a wild exaggeration of on a true story.
>>A trojan is software that convinces the user to install it by looking like something else that the user might want to install.
>Something else like a... hard disk?
A hard disk is mostly... hardware. There's a little software in it, even in a good, uninfected unit, but that's called firmware. One doesn't buy a hard disk for that firmware.
Are iPhone users really that interested in Java? Given that it's an interpreted environment, I question its efficiency. That speed and efficiency loss is not that critical on a desktop, but when you get a palm-sized computer, it can become an issue.
Personally, I would rather make a native app just for iPhone than do a Java app for iPhone. iPhone really doesn't have a market fragmentation issue, it's its own segment. Given how fragmented the phone market is, a Java app would be better as a whole, but I really don't care about them.
I wish people would quit complaining about not having their flying cars anyway. It's a stupid fantasy that might be possible, but it's just not that practical. Not only is there this issue of requiring a landing strip, which takes land and only one craft can use it at the same time, a dozen cars at highway speed can use the same length of the same strip.
Something optimized for good flying won't do very well on the land.
Not only that, there's ever increasing pressure on energy supplies and people are somehow duped into thinking that they can afford to fly? Airplane fuel costs a little more and you'll be using a lot more of it to stay in the air, maybe two or three times as much. If you don't like spending $50/mo to $100/mo on gas, I doubt you'd like to spend $200/mo or more to cover the same distance. The cost to rent a plane is at least $60/hr depending on your region and the plane. That will cover more distance than two hours in a car, but there's plenty of preflight prep that takes time too. The plane my dad rents wouldn't take four people and cargo, it's four people or you take away people to be able to take cargo. Balance is a big concern too.
It costs about $5000 in training and expenses to learn how to fly. That training expense is not going to go down that much, because there's a lot to learn about flying that's not needed in order to drive a car. Given how so many drivers seem pretty dumb about driving, I don't think I'd want them in the air at all. There's a lot more regulation, for good reason too, damage in crashing a car is trivial compared to the damage you can do in a small plane.
The problem with movies is that there are hundreds of people in the process that no one wants to be expected to sit through five minutes of credits before seeing the movie. I want the credits to be there, but I wouldn't want anyone to be seen as forcing people to see them all before getting to the movie itself.
With TV, the same thing, though I think it's unfortunate that they are near illegible, though maybe they are optimized for HDTV, most HDTVs are clear enough to be able to read the credits. If you watch on an SDTV, then there might be a problem.
Show me some evidence that Americans have an aversion to robots.
I don't have any proof of that, but a lot of Americans seem to have some aversion to many kinds of technology. Even on this board you might see people complain that they "just want a phone", and I think that's part of why phones available in the US are lower tech than overseas. And despite the fact that the average American watches something like 3-4 hours of TV a day, they won't buy HDTVs, only a third of US homes have an HDTV right now.
Of course, the next step would be sex robots disguised as maid robots because of the social stigma of sexbots.
There seems to be a lot more Japanese people with a maid fetish than in the US, so there's not much of a difference there.
The problem is that it's now so cheap to put into the chipset. Even if you were to get a new board "without" integrated audio video, you are likely to get in the chips somewhere anyway but the circuitry not hooked up to a jack and maybe a separate amp chip.
On the other hand we've all seen how successfull the big three have been when it comes to leaving big oil.
It's not as if they've tried very hard. They tried hard NOT to have an electric car, they sued CARB to avoid having to make electric cars for California, so innovation had to come from elsewhere.
Silicon Valley isn't a good place though, maybe they can make circuit boards but the actual design and construction of cars would have to be elsewhere. Land value is just too high to make a profitable auto plant.
I think might just be a certified hardware/software combination and nothing more. They would probably include a software install CD that would be already set up for a quick, painless and predictable installation - probably with minimal options, if any.
I don't think that's the only way to look at it.
I think making jokes about a horrific situation might be considered a psychological defense mechanism as well. Given the relative proximity here, I think it would be plausible.